'Snowmageddon' blankets Mid-Atlantic in white

Angel Martinez and a small crew of contractors shoveled morning and night and plowed streets and walkways of a Silver Spring subdivision. "Usually there is not a lot of work this time of year, so when I get the call I'm happy for the opportunity to work," said Martinez, 24, of Gaithersburg. "But today there was too much."

Image: Pedestrians struggle through the snow behind a statue of a man reading in front of the Public Library during a major winter storm in Ashland, Va. on February 6, 2010.